 Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing...  Selections from the British Poets - Page 91edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high imbowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied...with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight,...religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voic'd quire below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, • • And love the high-embower'd roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied...ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes." From IL PENSEROSO. Which is the sweeter of these two modes of enchantment by the charms of music,—the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1852 - 498 pages
...never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale ; And love the high embowed roof, With antique Dinars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting...ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes." In the same way, the learning of this wondrous being helped to give his mind that catholicity of taste... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...richly dight, Cast1ng a dim religious light, There let the pealing organ blow, To the full voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may with...ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. Christ's College had an organ which he probably played during his residence there; and much later,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...study. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied...religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voic'd choir below In service high and anthems clear. . . . There is an Anglican (if not a Catholic)... | |
 | Stanley Fish - Education - 1980 - 412 pages
...(147); and in response to the ecstasy-making sounds of the "Service high and Anthems clear": With antic Pillars massy proof And storied windows richly dight,...religious light. There let the pealing Organ blow, To the full voic'd choir below, In Service high and Anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear,... | |
 | Ralph P. Martin - Religion - 1982 - 256 pages
...exultation of spirit as he appreciated all that "man-made" music could bring to the enrichment of worship: There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced...sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, 2. The complementary aspect is the expressive role of music-in-worship . Praise is now seen as finding... | |
 | Thomas F. Healy - English poetry - 1986 - 180 pages
...richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below In service high, and anthems clear, As may with...ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. (11.155-166). The limits, however, that various groups accorded to notions of proper reverence and... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...would, of these lines from // Penseroso: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may...me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.3* In a state of musical ecstasy, according to the "World Music" lore in which Milton was schooled... | |
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